“The latest NETGEAR open source wireless router is the WGR614L: the open wireless router platform of choice for serious developers and newer users alike. Flexible and powerful, the WGR614L can support many popular third party firmware applications, including DD-WRT, Tomato, and Sveasoft.”

So, you've "bricked" your WGR614L, either through too much tinkering or just a fluke. You may have tried tftp through your network cable, you just can't get a ping or for any reason can't get it going again. Rather…

Collaborative Filtering is a mechanism used to filter large amounts of information by spreading the process of filtering among a large group of people. Unlike mainstream media where there is either one or very few editors setting guidelines, the collaboratively filtered social web can have infinitely many editors and gets…

In the social news space, Digg and Propeller just use the system insofar as the front page is concerned (although Digg is set to release their recommendation engine this week). Once the content is promoted to the front page, the…

Traveling this summer? Don't lug your data with you — just set up your laptop to talk to your machine remotely and access your music, e-mail, photos and other files from thousands of miles away. In Wired's How-To Wiki.

Or, if you have a shell account on an internet accessible server somewhere (your web server perhaps), you can make a script to keep your home computer logged in via ssh. Log into the server, run 'w' to see logged in users, note…

How may Canadian companies reap the benefits of social networking while minimizing or eliminating the risks? Experts - including Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner, Ann Cavoukian -offer some great suggestions.

Old-fashioned policies established to deal with what information can be made public won't cut it anymore, says Dimitri Sirota, vice-president of marketing at Vancouver-based XML security vendor Layer 7 Technologies. For instance,…

Diggs: Get Some
There are plenty of obstacles you need to figure out how to jump over, and duck under in order to get your article recognized by other digg users.

These mutual friends will help your digg count grow exponentially, and the more diggs your submission gets, the more visible it is to the rest of the community. That means you’ll start getting fans of your own in no time. Your/The…

In spring 2007, Estonia’s banks and newspapers were shut down by an organized wide-scale cyber-attack using ‘botnets and other “Cyber-warefare” methods, in this Wired Science video they take an in depth look at how this happened and how Cyber-warfare similar to this will be fought and what governments/organizations can do to deter it.

In spring 2007, Estonia's banks and newspapers were shut down by an organized wide-scale cyber-attack using 'botnets. Browse Video

For all you designer junkies out there this list should give you a great start to following some talented designers. Over 50 designers, in no particular order, with a link to their Twitter profile.

Just added everyone, great post too, I never would have found all these although some I had already added. I’m adelle charles, (adellecharles.com & fuelyourcreativity.com) Feel free to follow me!

Valuable tips and interesting reading for all lovers of Social Media - wanting to contribute their best

Of all our picks, staying active is the most important contribution you can make to social media. Social media requires active participation within the community. It's an act of both give and take. While it's perfectly fine to be a lurker,…

Last summer, a local San Diego CBS affiliate television station, News 8, aired a story about a website called BumFinder.com. The website solicited users who would spot people who appeared to be homeless and plug in their location coordinates using a Google Map. The station interviewed San Diego’s most famous homeless advocate, Father Joe Carroll…

Why are we allowing unreasonable people to demand that we spend money to disturb the seal colony that so many people enjoy visiting?

It’s great to keep in touch with your friends and colleagues, but does the price have to be spam, zombie bites, and friend invitations from people you’ve never heard of?

One of the benefits of social networking is that your communications with fellow networkers bypass your normal e-mail inbox, providing a measure of safety against viruses, worms, and other malware–or so everyone thought. In 2006,…

A Catholic school dean is the latest victim of some pranksters who created a fake Facebook profile and sent out inappropriate messages. He and the archdiocese don’t know who’s behind it, though, and have filed suit against Facebook in hopes of finding out.

If you're getting a feeling of déjà vu reading this story, it's probably because the case is reminiscent of numerous fake principal/teacher profiles created on social networking sites like MySpace using…

Real-time micro-blogging is gaining in popularity. If you're wondering what's the point, here's our guide

Twitter.com obviously. You don't need to sign up; you can watch the flow of messages from a particular user at their username (eg Guardian Technology's, which is at twitter.com/guardiantech). However, Twitter only becomes useful…

Olinda is a new radio that has been built for BBC Audio & Music Interactive. It includes innovative features like modularity and social networking in a physical device.

Olinda is an extendable and customisable radio. On the side of Olinda is a studded, magnetic connector for plugging in expansion modules. This is an open, standardised hardware API - with defined connections and defined protocols for the data….

This is the first recession where the Internet is the primary driving force for almost every business, big and small as well as millions of free agent individuals.

This is where it gets interesting and a bit more complex. Digital products are simple. The whole process of creating craving and fulfilling craving takes place online. Physical products have to travel in the real world, using trucks and planes and…